CVE-2003-0081: Ethereal Group Ethereal

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 5.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Format string vulnerability in packet-socks.c of the SOCKS dissector for Ethereal 0.8.7 through 0.9.9 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via SOCKS packets containing format string specifiers.

Affected products

• Ethereal Group Ethereal: version 0.8.18 only; version 0.9.0 only; version 0.9.1 only; version 0.9.2 only; version 0.9.3 only; version 0.9.4 only; …

Published 2003-03-18. Last modified 2026-06-16.